I found this article and had to blog about it. In a recent survey 39 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds would quit their job if they couldn't access Facebook. Reading the article I was shocked at the percentage. Being a college student Facebook is a nice place to talk to friends that you may not otherwise talk to, but to quit your job because you couldn't look at what Timmy did over the weekend, get serious. I used to always laugh when my parents would say "you don't know how good you got it, your generation is spoiled." After reading this article I'm going to have to side with my parents. In the words of our parents we need to grow up.
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/tve/?p=338
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- My name is Brandon Rainier and I am a senior public relations student at Ohio Northern University. I am engaged to my high school/grade school sweetheart. My favorite thing to do is to go to Vegas and to take classes with Jenny Walton.
3 comments:
I agree with you 100%. I mean honestly people are losing their jobs left and right because of inappropriate behavoir and discredible validity. These people should be thankful they even have there jobs. Gezzzzz!!!!
The sad part about this is that there seems to be no end in sight to the social tragedy that is facebook. As you can probably tell I'm not really a fan. Although I understand why facebook is appealing to many people, I think its a sad statement that soooooo many people waste so much of their time "creeping" on other people, many of which they've never actually met or barely know.
According to an article by Nick Gonzalez, from 2006 to 2007 the number of facebook users rose an astounding 89%.
Even worse, facebook users are diversifying as well, so I'm worried to see what kind of statistics are going to be out in another year or two.
In the evolving world of social media, I guess I really don't see too much of a difference between what we are doing, and what people do on Facebook.
Personally I think that Facebook is MUCH easier to use. Minus a section specifically dedicated to writing a blog, it also has many of the same "gadgets" that many blogs have.
While I agree Brandon that it is rediculous for someone in today's economy to quit their job over something so juvenile, the similarities between blog pages and facebook pages are not very vast.
B M Vany
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